Poems of Places Author:Henry Longfellow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Of peace, content, and joy, art thou, Grasmere! 0 lake most fair set round with mountain-guards, Sweet birds, swift streams, eternal waterfall, Crag-lichen, a... more »nd wild vale-flower, all, yea, all Shall eye and ear in love oft turn towards : 1 thank thee for much lore that doth not dwell With books nor men: farewell, bright spot, farewell! James Pat/n. Great Bealings. MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCHYARD. BEAR witness, many a loved and lovely scene Which I no more may visit, are ye not Thus still my own ? Thy groves of shady green, Sweet Gosfield ! or thou, wild, romantic spot! Where by gray craggy cliff, and lonely grot, The shallow Dove rolls o'er his rocky bed: You still remain as fresh and unforgot As if but yesterday mine eyes had fed Upon your charms; and yet months, years, since then have sped Their silent course. And thus it ought to be, . Should I sojourn far hence in distant years, Thou lovely dwelling of the dead! with thee: For there is much about thee that endears Thy peaceful landscape; much the heart reveres, Much that it loves, and all it could desire In meditation's haunt, when hopes and fears Have been too busy, and we would retire Even from ourselves awhile, yet of ourselves inquire. Then art thou such a spot as man might choose For still communion: all around is sweet And calm and soothing; when the light breeze wooes The lofty limes that shadow thy retreat, Whose interlacing branches, as they meet, O'crtop and almost hide the edifice They beautify; no sound, except the bleat Of innocent lambs, or notes which speak the bliss Of happy birds unseen. What could a hermit miss ? Bernard Barton. Green-head Ghyll. GREEN-HEAD GHYLL. IF from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook...« less